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50 years of World Pumps

A brief history of pumps

Ten years ago, World Pumps put together a brief history of the pump industry telling the story of pump development since the Egyptians invented the 'shadoof' in 200BC. We stopped then at 1999, but here we bring the story right up to date with some of the main industry events of recent times.

ifty years ago, Trade & Technical Press launched a new magazine to report on technical developments in pumps. The original title of Pumping was short-lived, being soon supplanted by the pan-European Pumps, Pompes, Pumpen in 1965 as the magazine linked up with the fledgling Europump association. Over the next seventeen years, the pump industry became increasingly international and in 1982, the publisher decided to mark this trend by re-launching the magazine as World Pumps. The thirtieth anniversary year saw Trade & Technical Press acquired by Elsevier Science Ltd who incorporated the magazine into its Elsevier Advanced Technology Division. Since then, a number of editorial changes have brought with them new approaches as the industry matures. There have been reviews of software and web pages, eventually eclipsed by sheer numbers. An annual International Buyers Guide has been published since 1997, and is now supplemented by an on-line version. Since 2003 World Pumps has worked with BPMA on the annual prestigious Pump Industry Awards. The magazine now features regular contributions from the Hydraulic Institute, underlining its international credentials. Man has been using pumps of some type for 4000 years, which makes 50

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years a very short time in the history of pumping. Indeed, looking back at the most significant developments in technology, the last fifty years seem relatively insignificant. By 1959, all the major pump designs had been introduced and mostly developed into commercial products. So what has World Pumps been writing about for the past 50 years?

now dominate the building services market. Pump selection software has speeded up the process of choosing a pump, as well as opening opportunities in marketing. For the designer, CAD and CFD have reached new heights. They can now interact but they still have some way to go before they fully replace personal expertise. Life cycle costing has become a part of everyday life and has shown that energy costs usually eclipse all other lifetime costs. Vast savings are

We are all aware that in recent years, discussions about the pump industry have been dominated by talk of mergers, takeovers and disposals. Indeed, as we consider the major pump makers of 2009, it is hard to name one which has not changed markedly since 1959.

Comings and goings

ITT, IDP, Sterling Fluid Systems, Grundfos, Wilo and ABS have changed almost beyond recognition. Established independent makers like Harland, Flygt, Worthington and now Weir Pumps have disappeared, whilst newer names like Textron, Constellation Capital, IDEX, Pentair and Flowserve have arrived on the scene, continuing the trend for the biggest companies to get bigger. Other interesting changes include diversification. For example, after more than 50 years of providing submersible motors to pump makers, Franklin Electric has pulled the plug and now buys pump companies to produce its own units. Mind you, it is also interesting to note from the chronology of the pump industry listed below, that even in the early years of this magazine mergers and acquisitions were not unknown and ever since there has been a continuous environment of change.

Driving trends
One trend has been the increasing importance of niche positive displacement pumps, particularly rotary types. Peristaltic, progressing cavity and rotary lobe pumps have all risen in prole as their capabilities have been introduced to new markets by improved communications. Increasing competition has meant that users have been more inclined to experiment in the search for the ideal pump for dicult duties. The trends that have affected all of us have also had their impact on the pump market. Increased environmental awareness gave a real boost to pumps without shaft seals. Magnetic drive and canned motor units have thrived and even produced a hybrid combining the two technologies. Pump shaft sealing has also changed dramatically. Asbestos in packing is outlawed and today the vast majority of new pumps are supplied with mechanical seals, often in factoryassembled cartridge format to avoid the risk of face damage during handling. Materials have also developed. Seawater pumps have seen gunmetal and aluminium bronze replaced by highly alloyed super-austenitic and superduplex stainless steels. New non-metals have made possible tiny pumps for human implant. Ceramics and tungsten/ silicon carbide have vastly reduced wear rates in pumps of all sizes. Even large sub-sea variable speed supersynchronous drive motors for pumps are now possible.

Global marketplace
Probably the biggest single change in this industry has been the transition from a local to a global marketplace. Fifty years ago we had only national trade associations but today the significant impetus in intercompany relations is at intercontinental level. The Europump Association has grown massively in stature and effectiveness in its 49 years, and now works in close partnership with the Hydraulic Institute in the US. This partnership reflects ever closer cooperation between pump manufacturers' associations, a development that mirrors this magazines evolution from national through European to global coverage.

Overtaken by computers
Electronics and computers have overtaken all our lives and inevitably have entered the physical world of pumps in the form of variable speed drives (VSDs), SCADA systems and condition monitoring equipment. Integral VSDs on in-line pumping units

frequently realised by system improvement but appropriate legislation is practically impossible to formulate. Although pump efficiency improvements give relatively small returns for large outlays, legislation for raising efficiency now exists in Korea and China. The European Commission, as part of its Energy Using Products Directive, has targeted the raising of efficiencies of water pumps. Europump has been instrumental in assisting the EC in this task and has proposed a method for eliminating bad performers.

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A brief history of the pump industry

2000 BC Egyptians invent the shadoof 200 BC Ctesibius invents the reciprocating pump; Archimedean screw pump described (but not invented) by Archimedes Sliding vane pump invented by Ramelli; Serviere invents the gear pump Otto van Guericke invents his piston vacuum pump Sir Samuel Morland patents the packed plunger pump Ural hydraulic machinery plant established Plenty Ltd established Thomas Simpson establishes his pump business in London Hayward Tyler established 1830 1834 1840 1848 1851 1853 1856 1857 Screw pump invented by Revillion Sulzer Brothers founded Henry R Worthington invents the rst direct-acting steam pump Goulds Pumps founded John Gwynne patents his centrifugal pump improvements Bornemann Pumpen founded Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon founded Roper Pump Company founded Jacob Edson invents the diaphragm pump and founds the Edson Corporation 1860 David Brown commences business as pattern maker Allweiler founded A.S. Cameron invents the rst reciprocating steam pump 1862 1866 Lawrence Pumps established; Philipp Hilge founded Lederle founded Sigma Lutin founded; Stork Pumpen founded Scanpump founded 1871 KSB established; Southern Cross established in Australia 1911 1910 1909 1903 1905 1906 1907 1901 1897 1888 1890 1893 1894 1881 1883 1872 1873 1875 1877 1878 George and James Weir set up the partnership that forms the Weir Group Weise & Monski, Ochsner, Byron Jackson and Wilo founded G & J Weir moves to Glasgow Hodgkin and Neuhaus, forerunner of SPP, founded Ritz Pumpenfabrik established Steimel founded; Hodgkin and Neuhaus becomes the Pulsometer Engineering Company Ltd Halberg Maschinenbau founded Holden & Brooke founded A W Chesterton founded Kirloskar Brothers Ltd founded Salmson starts making pumps in Paris; Osna Pumpen established Uraca Pumpenfabrik founded Sero Pumpenfabrik founded Peroni founded 1896 KSB opens UK subsidiary; Dia Pumpen founded Wirth founded Worthington Pump Company and Thomas Simpson amalgamate to form Worthington Simpson Ltd Flygts forerunner Stenberg founded Rateau founded Leistritz Company established Stuart Turner Ltd founded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries produces its rst pump Tristam Pumpen and Pumpen fabrik Ernst Vogel founded Ingersoll-Rand enters the pump business by acquiring the Cameron Steam Pumps Works Gilbarco produces its rst gasoline pump Dickow Pumpen and Hitachi founded Jens Nielsen builds the rst Viking internal gear pump, founding the Viking Pump Company 1931 1930 1928 1929 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1919 1918 1917 1912 1916 Ebara Corporation founded; Duriron (Durco Pumps) founded Hazleton Pumps founded as Barrett Haentjens and Co. Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation acquires Worthington Simpson Ltd John Crane founded; Hydraulic Institute established Louis Bergeron invented the concrete volute pump and founded Bergeron S.A. Scanpump and CCM Sulzer founded Torishima Pump Mfg Co and Kawamoto Pump Mfg established Bombas Itur, Wernert Pumpen and SIHI established LaBour founded Midland Dairy Machines founded Peerless founded; Pacic Pumps founded Jung Pumpen established; Leistritz starts making screw pumps Rheinhuette starts pump production 1926 1927 Arai Pump Mfg. Co. founded Industrial Filter and Pump Mfg Co founded Edur Pumpenfabrik founded Girdlestone Pumps founded Heishin Works, and Houttuin founded Pleuger pioneers the submersible turbine pump motor Stenberg and Flygt commence their cooperation Ren Moineau receives a doctorate for his thesis which will lead to the invention of the progressing cavity pump Ensival starts selling centrifugal pumps Reda Pump Company founded Imo established by Ingestrm and Montelius

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1650 1674 1738 1790

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VNII Gidromash research and design organization founded in Moscow 1932 1933 1936 Sarlin Pumps founded; Bran+Luebbe founded Bush pump invented; GormannRupp established Robbins & Myers acquires North American license for the Moineau progressing cavity pump Mono Pumps Ltd formed to manufacture and distribute Moineaus pump design in the UK 1937 1938 1940 1941 Sigmund Pumps Ltd (GB) established Ebsray and Warman International founded Grindex founded; Dresser acquires Pacic Pumps British Pump Manufacturers Association founded Smedegaard Pumps founded 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Franklin Electric founded Grundfos Pumps, Caprari and Flexibox founded Cornell Pumps, Klaus Union, Totton Pumps founded HMD Seal/Less Pumps established; Hyundai founded Abel Pumps launched; Mast Pumpen founded Stenberg Flygt AB designs the rst submersible drainage pump; Varisco starts pump production 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 HMD supplies its rst production magnet-drive pump Batescrew estabIished; Delasco founded Tsurumi and Netzsch Mohnop umpen founded Lewa and Rovatti founded Nikkiso established Orlita and Sta-Rite founded Bell & Gossett opens its Little Red Schoolhouse training facility 1955 Wilden and DMW Corporation established Borg-Warner acquires Byron Jackson

1956

Flygt introduces the submersible sewage pump Saer Elettropompe founded

1977

Ingersoll-Rand buys Western Land Roller Irrigation Pumps Sterling Fluid Systems (TBG) buys Peerless Pump

1957

Richter Chemie-Technik founded Centrilift founded 1978

1958

Heishin Works becomes Heishin Pump Works Co Ltd SSP Pumps founded 1979

Thompsons acquires the pump manufacturing operations of Kelly & Lewis to form Thompsons, Kelly & Lewis Totton Pumps bought by Wolseley plc SPP acquires Godiva Fire Pumps

1959

World Pumps is launched as Pumping ABS and Calpeda founded 1981

1960

David Brown Pumps division formed Europump established 1982

Red Jacket and Hydromatic merge to form Marley Pump Sterling Fluid Systems takes a half share in SIHI Pumps, Pompes, Pumpen is relaunched as World Pumps Magazine Biwater acquires Wallwin Pumps SPP is subject to a management buy-out

1961

Ingersoll-Rand acquires the Aldrich Pump Company Pulsometer Engineering joins the Booker McConnel Group, which had already acquired Sigmund Pumps

1962 1964 1965

Acromet commences operations First edition of the Pumping Manual published Nigos Pumps incorporated in India; Warren Rupp founded Sulzer acquires majority interest in Weise & Monski Pumping becomes Pumps, Pompes, Pumpen

1984

First Texas A&M Pump Users Symposium SIHI buys the canned motor programme of Bran+Luebbe

1985

Dresser Industries acquires Worthington Pumps KSB acquires Pompes Guinard; Scanpump acquires Pumpex SIHI buys the pump programme of MAN Pentair acquires FE Myers; Goulds Pumps acquires Lowara SPP acquires Henry Sykes plc

1966 1967 1968

Crisafulli Pump Company founded; ITT acquires Jabsco Scienco founded Johnson Pump International founded ITT Corporation acquires Flygt 1987

1969

Weir acquires Harland Engineering; Worthington acquires Worthington-Simpson Alma Pompe founded; Weir buys Drysdale; Ingersoll-Rand buys Sigmund Pumps Ltd (GB) in Gateshead, UK SIHI takes over Halberg; Gvelot group acquires Delasco Turbosan founded Seepex Seeberger founded

Bedford Pumps launched; BW/IP formed by management buy-out of Borg-Warners Industrial Products subsidiary Weir buys Mather and Platt Machinery; SIHI France buys Schabaver; Dresser acquires Pleuger Pumps

1970

1988

KSB acquires a majority stake in Georgia Iron Works Scanpump acquires Pompes Le; Idex Corporation founded Weir buys the large pumps business of WH Allen & Gwynnes from NEI; BW/IP acquires United Centrifugal Pumps Braithwaite acquires SPP and sells o Godiva Fire Pumps

1971

1973 1976

Crest Pumps Ltd founded Worthington acquires Sier-Bath Pump Division from Gilbarco

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1989

Elsevier acquires World Pumps; Scanpump acquires ABS; Pearce Pump Supply founded TBG acquires SPP Ltd as part of Sterling Fluid Systems Dresser Industries acquires Mono Pumps Ltd; Ingersoll-Rand acquires Scienco Ltd Watson-Marlow bought by SpiraxSarco

Johnson Pumps International acquires the modular pumps business Durco and BW/IP merge to form Flowserve Corp. ITT Industries acquires Goulds Idex acquires Blagdon Pumps Textron acquires Maag Pump Systems Spirax-Sarco acquires Bredel Pentair acquires General Signals Pump Group Constellation Capital acquires Imo David Brown acquires Union Pump Company Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon buys Wallwin Pumps from Biwater Textron buys David Brown Union Pumps Constellation Capital buys Allweiler; Glynwed acquires Friatec; Sundstrand acquires Ansimag and Masco; Weir buys Schabaver 1999 Hayward Tyler acquires APV Industrial Pumps Ebara acquires Cryostar cryogenic pumps Howard Anderson buys Pullen Pumps Sterling Fluid Systems acquires QVF Engineering (Germany) United Technologies Corp acquires Sundstrand Textron buys KSB Annecy (France) Weir Group acquires Warman International (including Girdle stone Pumps) United Dominion Industries acquires Bran+Luebbe; Ensival merges with Moret 2000 Flowserve acquires IDP ABS acquires CH&E Pumps (USA) Cat Pumps (UK) buys Ram Pumps Grundfos acquires Myson and Sarlin Pumps Sulzer acquires Ahlstrom Pumps Watson-Marlow Bredel acquires Alitea (Sweden) Roper acquires Abel; Blackmer buys Chestertons System One pumps 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001

Sulzer (temporarily) decides to leave the pump business; Sundyne acquires Caster (Italy) SPX acquires United Dominion Industries Godwin Pumps of America acquires Godwin Pumps (UK) Lightnin (of SPX) acquires Plenty Group Metso acquires Svedala; Idex acquires Versa-Matic Gorman-Rupp acquires American Machine and Tool Grundfos takes controlling interest in Chung Suk (Korea) ITT acquires Svedala Robot (Holland) Idex acquires Wrightech (USA) National Oilwell acquires Mono and Corlac (Canada) Wilo acquires EMU Weir Engineering Services acquires Allen Gwynnes pump business Kirloskar acquires SPP Pumps; KSB acquires controlling share in Bombas Itur (Spain) Howden pumps merge with Orbit in South Africa; Flowserve acquire Thompsons, Kelly & Lewis; Armstrong Pumps buy Holden Brooke Pullen, Baric and RMI Grundfos take control of Philipp Hilge Dover Resources acquire Almatec Grundfos takes over Tesla (Italian submersible motor maker) National Oilwell merges with Varco International Interpump acquires Hammelmann Weir acquires Pompe Gabbioneta (Italy) Wilo acquires majority holding in Mather & Platt Pumps and Fire Systems (India) Grundfos acquires Brisan Turbo (South Africa) SPX acquires Johnson Pump Franklin Electric acquires Little Giant Pump United Components acquire ASC Industries (USA)

1991 1992

Idex acquires Corken; Baker Hughes acquires Geho Ingersoll-Rand and Dresser Industries merge their pump businesses to form Ingersoll Dresser Pumps (IDP) Warman acquires Girdlestone Pumps Idex acquires Pulsafeeder and Johnson Pump (UK) Ltd Weir buys Floway; BW/IP buys ACEC Ebara establishes state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Italy

1993

United Dominion acquires Marley Pump Vogel acquires Ochsner Sterling Fluid Systems acquires LaBour

1994

Weir acquires EnviroTech Pumpsys tems Warman acquires Barrett Haentjens Idex acquires Hale Products; Goulds acquires Vogel ITT buys Richter Chemie-Technik Sundstrand acquires HMD Seal/ less Pumps

1995

Idex acquires Micropump; BW/IP acquires the Wilson-Snyder centrifugal pump business from National Oilwell Durametallic acquires Pacseal and then is bought by Duriron

1996

Hayward Tyler sold by Sterling Fluid Systems, which buys the remaining half share in SIHI; Grundfos acquires Interdab Pump Industry Analyst launched BW/IP acquires Stork Pumps engineered pumps business

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Wilo acquires Circulating Pumps (UK) South Bank UK acquires Hayward Tyler Group Sulzer Pumps sells Paco to Grundfos Pentair acquires Jung Pumpen (Germany) Lowara buys Mercury submersible motors (Italy) 2007 Sulzers proposed acquisition of Weir Pumps falls through Clyde Pumps (part of Clyde Blowers) acquires Weir Pumps SPX acquires APV Grundfos acquires Peerless Pump Wilden Pump acquires Griswold Pump Franklin Electric acquires Monarch Industries pump division (USA) Weir Group acquires Multio Australia and SPM Flow Control (USA). 2008 Weir Group acquires CH Warman Pump Group

Franklin Electric acquires Industrias Schneider (Brazil) Flowserve complete acquisition of Niigata Worthington (Japan) Dover Corporation acquires Neptune Chemical Pump to join its Pump Solutions Group (Wilden, Blackmer, Griswold, Almatec) Weir Group acquires Mesa Manufacturing (USA) Hamilton Sunstrand acquires Marelli Pumps (Spain) Clyde Blowers acquires Textron Fluid and Power division (including Maag Pump Systems and Union Pumps) IDEX acquires Richter Chemie-Technik.

This overview of pumping history is by no means complete, but we hope you nd it interesting and instructive. We apologise for any omissions and inaccuracies and will welcome any corrections which will assist in the preparation of an updated listing in ten years' time.

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